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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
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The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
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and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
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What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?
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The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
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what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
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Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
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The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
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So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
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With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
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When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.
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Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
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to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city.
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He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.
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So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
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Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
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Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.
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He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.
